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Subject: Re: Fossil chess programs of interest

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 16:07:40 01/03/01

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On January 03, 2001 at 14:49:37, James Swafford wrote:

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>>You are right.  The programs were written in 1993 and I thought alpha-beta was
>>not invented until 1995, but maybe that was NULL MOVE or something.  Anyway, you
>>are right, it is definitely using alpha-beta.
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>I think a-b is 20 (maybe 30+) years old. Claude Shannon perhaps?

Newell, Shaw and that other dude wrote a paper about it 1956 I think.



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